Two injured in toxic gas leak in China
Two persons were injured when toxic gas leaked from a ruptured pipe at a chemical factory in northwest China, state media reported on Friday.
Liquid ammonia leaked into the air after a transfer tube
'Iran building secret underground nuclear plant'
Iran has been secretly building a vast underground nuclear plant 200 metres deep inside a desert mountain ridge in east of Tehran, in violation of the UN sanction regime, an anti-Iran group has claime
Chinese woman sues cinema hall for excessive ads
A woman in China has sued a cinema hall and the distributors of a movie, claiming excessive advertising wasted her time and violated her freedom of choice.
The suit filed by movie-goer Chen Xiaomei h
Abu Salem can be tried for all crimes in India: Apex court
The Supreme Court Friday ruled that the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts accused and underworld don Abu Salem can be tried for all the crimes he had committed in the country.
BSNL ready for mobile number portability
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Friday said it is ready with the infrastructure to start mobile number portability (MNP) by the scheduled October 31 deadline.
1 dies in Afghan protest over Quran burning
One person was killed and six others were injured in Afghanistan on Friday in a protest over a US pastor's plan to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, a media report said.
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Italian priest says Islam will rule EU
London, Sept. 8: Christians in Europe must have more children or else the continent would become Islamised, said a Vatican official who predicted that Islam would sooner rather than later conquer the
Poland urged to honour WWII maharaja
Polish academics and Indophiles have requested newly-elected Polish President Bronislaw Kmorowski to posthumously honour the late Maharaja of Jamnagar who cared for more than one thousand Polish chil
Jacko ‘love child’ claim denied in La
A woman claiming to be the love child of the late pop legend Michael Jackson has had her case thrown out by a Los Angeles judge.
Obama to end tax breaks for firms that outsource
Accusing opposition Republicans of pushing bankrupt economic policies and putting politics ahead of national welfare, the President, Mr Barack Obama, has vowed to end Bush era tax cuts encouraging com